Al Harkan's Blog
My Written Thoughts on Media, Technology, and Everything in Between
100 Days of Code
Many principles from this study are super useful to implement outside the field of software development. So much so, it offers efficiency in delivering a great working product.
Argumentasi Omnibus Law
Isu pengesahan Omnibus Law Cipta Lapangan Kerja menjadi polemik besar dalam beberapa minggu terakhir. Saya berusaha mengindari arus untuk mengikuti dan memberi argumen, dan ingin memutuskan secara pribadi keberpihakan yang baik. Di sini saya mencoba melacak beberapa argumentasi Pemerintah atas proposal UU Cipta Lapangan Kerja —dari yang dikomunikasikan di media massa.
Contact (1997)
“If we are alone in the universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space.”
Data Science Fellowship
Selama 2 bulan masa lockdown dan #WorkFromHome ini, di samping pekerjaan mengajar, saya menyisihkan waktu untuk untuk belajar data science dengan mengikuti program Fellowship yang diselenggarakan oleh IYKRA. Saya membuat log belajar mingguan yang saya rupakan dalam tweet-tweet. Berisi cerita apa saja yang saya pelajari, pengalaman-pengalaman praktikum, juga curhat sana-sini. Berikut ini adalah untaian tweet-nya.
Ramadan 2020
Feeling uncertain of many things. The outbreak shows no sign of slowing down. Economic catastrophe. People are losing trust in government. Activists are being silenced. It’s the month of prayers, and I’m desperately praying for all of these bad things to end.
Corona & Teman-teman Saya
Teman-teman sebaya saya merentang dr mereka yg baru sarjana, kuliah juga, lulus S dua, bekerja/berusaha, juga yg baru membina keluarga. Buat sebagian besar dari demografi seperti mereka, urusan pandemi Corona ini jadi pukulan sejadi-jadinya.
Hozhoni
When I was 9 years old, I stumbled upon a book of my father’s. The title read Samudra Al-Fatihah. The cover was worn out, and I don’t quite remember what made me spent hours reading a chapter from that book. But I remember what I read, because that was my oldest memory, the first time my mind being blown away learning about the grandeur of the universe.
When Breath Becomes Air (2016)
“I don’t believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment – a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living.”
A Writer’s Block
A writer’s block is “the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.” -Oxford Dictionary
The Great Hack (2019)
“You set out to connect people and you are refusing to acknowledge that this same technology is now driving us apart.” This quote just summed how social media has transformed from a technology to connect people into a weapon to divide society. And this movie telling the story behind it quite well.